138 The hour of decisive battle has come
(4) "Start, let Ramsay start his generator plan!" Go now, go to Dunkirk at once, don't assemble, all the ships go to Dunkirk at once, there is no need to assemble, there is no need to form formations! ”
"Don't want it, don't want anything, people must withdraw it for me, give an order, let the troops resist me to the death, transfer all the fleets, and all the troops that can be mobilized will be transferred to me!"
"Let the French hold Clervik, hold there, hold there at any cost!"
"Let the French resist it, withdraw quickly, and all the troops quickly withdraw!"
"What about the Air Force! Send all the Royal Air Force, all the planes over, and make sure to blow up the Germans outside Dunkirk! ”
Churchill's voice was almost hoarse, the map on the table had been torn to pieces by his angry hands, and the Anglo-French army had been routed far faster than he had expected. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
The main force of the Germans was still far away a second ago, and now suddenly a large number of troops have approached Dunkirk less than 20 kilometers, but the hundreds of thousands of British and French troops have only less than 50,000 people have arrived in Dunkirk, at this rate, once the Germans cut off and occupy Dunkirk, then none of the British expeditionary forces will want to return to the British Isles alive.
Churchill absolutely could not bear the British expeditionary force to be completely confessed to France, he could not allow it!
On the way back to 10 Downing Street, the British crowd gathered at Westminster Abbey to pray spotted their Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and the crowd almost immediately surrounded Churchill's car, wanting to know what was going on across the Channel, whether their children, their brothers, their friends, would be able to return from France alive.
Churchill got out of the car, he knew that if he said the wrong thing at this time, he would be immediately ousted from the position of prime minister, and he could not say even a word wrong!
"The situation in France is not optimistic, we are in a rout. Moreover, the situation in Dunkirk is not optimistic, the Germans have approached Dunkirk, we are trying our best to stop them, but there are still too many troops far from Dunkirk, and they have not yet had time to withdraw to Dunkirk. ”
Churchill confessed the situation with the British Expeditionary Force that he had no other choice.
"No matter how bad the situation in Dunkirk is, no matter how many people can make it back alive! We're all going to keep fighting! Keep fighting, never stop! ”
At this time, there is no way to retreat, so many people have died, Churchill can't let these people die in vain, no matter what, can't retreat!
"I now appeal to you, in my capacity as Prime Minister of the Wartime Cabinet, that the withdrawal operation is in full swing, but the number of our ships is limited, and I hope that you can do everything in your power to join in the withdrawal operation, from Dover to Dunkirk, there is only a straight line distance of tens of kilometers, and I believe that you, who dominate the seas, will be able to drive your ships across these tens of kilometers and save our fighters from the encirclement of the enemy!"
"The British Empire, you are needed!"
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Just as Churchill fully launched the generator program, the German High Command immediately got busy.
The Anglo-French forces were already squeezed into their pockets, Guderian's 19th Panzer Corps and Li Ling's 1st Regiment were already attacking the last barrier in front of Dunkirk, and the main forces had begun to squeeze the living space of the Anglo-French forces along the Lens-Lille-Ypres line.
Judging from the information obtained, the British army was fleeing to Dunkirk with all its might, and when the troops attacked, various weapons and equipment such as artillery and tanks discarded by the British could be seen everywhere.
But this was not enough, the British ships were no longer grouping towards Dover and Margate, they had already begun to cross the Channel, and the withdrawal had already begun in the early morning of May 14, 1940, although by this time the vast majority of British troops had not yet reached Dunkirk!
"Let all the troops rush to Dunkirk as fast as they can! The Air Force should immediately use all its forces to completely wipe Dunkirk off the map, and then completely block the straits! ”
Heydrich sat in the supreme commander, and when Li Ling forcibly rushed to Dunkirk regardless of the danger, Heydrich knew Li Ling's choice and wiped out the British expeditionary force in France at all costs, this was his purpose, this was his choice!
"Now the troops are moving forward at full speed, and the air force has also invested two wings to bomb Dunkirk."
Keitel repeated the current deployment, and it seems that there is nothing wrong with everything, and there is nothing that can be changed now, just emphasize the speed of advancement.
"Not enough! It's not enough! ”
Heydrich knew that this was not enough!
From the moment the British rescue fleet sailed to Dunkirk, he knew that time was running out, and now it had reached the point where he had to race against time!
"So what to do? We have no other way, and if it really doesn't work, we will transfer all the air forces to block the strait, and the ground forces will not need any air support for the time being. ”
"No, it's not enough!"
Heydrich stood up and walked to the map.
"Order, the armored divisions of the two army groups A/B launched a surprise attack in the direction of Dunkirk at full speed, the motorized infantry must follow closely behind the armored divisions, and there is no need to be in full swing after arriving at Dunkirk, and it is necessary to cooperate with the 19th Panzer Army and the 1st Regiment directly under the British army to take Dunkirk before the main force of the British army retreats to Dunkirk."
"When the troops took Dunkirk, they immediately turned around and carried out a centripetal assault with the lagging infantry units, encircling and annihilating the main force of the Anglo-French army in the interior of France."
"Order, except for the minimum number of troops left in the air force to prepare to support the armored division, all other aircraft must be fully engaged in the blockade of the English Channel, the fighter force must ensure air supremacy over the English Channel at all times, and the bomber force must destroy all the British ports along the English Channel in addition to striking the British ships in the channel!"
"Order all the submarines of the Navy to block both ends of the English Channel and lay minefields, and be sure to keep the British warships out of the channel!"
"The time of the decisive battle has come, gentlemen, as long as we completely eat the British expeditionary force here, then then, after we take France, the so-called empire on which the sun never sets on the sea will also reach sunset! For Germany, for Germania, fight! ”
Heydrich slammed his fist on the combat map, and this time the order was given entirely by him, without listening to anyone's opinion!
Such an order was a very risky operation, but such a risk was worth it, as long as the British expeditionary force was destroyed, then after the capture of France, in Europe there would not be any more troops capable of threatening Germany! (To be continued.) )